>Shane Mage wrote:
>
>>Can anyone discover a rationale for the FCC permitting
>>"fuck you" but banning "fuck me?"
>
>Yes. The rationale is that it's ok to use "fuck" and "shit"
>figuratively but not to refer to sexual or excretory functions. So
>"that's fuckin' great" and "I don't give a shit" are ok - but not "I
>wanna fuck him" or "I gotta take a shit." Isn't that beautiful? I'm
>sure professors of semiotics are hard at work parsing this.
So, the signifier alone is ok - "shit" and "fuck" are not banned in certain contexts - and the signified alone is ok - you can say "stool" or "have intercourse with. But you can join obscene signifier to its original literal signified. There's a logic there, but it's crackpot logic.